A report released by Amnesty International says China is continuing to commit human rights abuses in the use of extra-judicial "black jails" and rehabilitation centers.
Last month, China vowed to close the country's 350 labour camps that are used to hold political and religious dissidents without any judicial process.
But according to the Amnesty report the centers still exist, just under a new guise.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF EAST ASIA OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, ROSEANN RIFE, SAYING:
"And we've even seen some of these camps just simply having their name changed into enforced drug rehabilitation camps. So unless the authorities really try to address the institution of arbitrary detention, they're just changing one form with another."
China's controversial 're-education through labour' programme has been criticized by human rights groups who say inmates are tortured, deprived of food, water and sleep, and beaten by other inmates.
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